ARAM Forthcoming Conferences:
The Mamluks in Bilad al-Sham: History and Archaeology, 1-4 April 1997
(American University of Beirut-Lebanon)
ARAM Society for Syro-Mesopotamian Studies is organising its Eighth
International Conference on the subject of The Mamluks in Bilad al-Sham:
History and Archaeology, to be held at the American University of Beirut
(Lebanon), on 1-4 April 1997. Scholars are invited to study the Mamluk
pottery, architecture, heritage management, numismatics, biographical
dictionaries, military system, hospitals and educational institutions,
Islamic jurisprudence, and the Muslim-Christian relations after the defeat
of the Crusaders.
If you wish to give a paper, please indicate the title and return to our
Oxford address. All papers given at the conference will be published in a
future edition of ARAM Periodical, subject to editorial review.
If you know of colleagues who might like to contribute to the conference,
please add their names and addresses.
Apameia and its Cultural Context: July 14-17, 1997 (Oxford University)
ARAM Society for Syro-Mesopotamian Studies is organising a series of
conferences on Greek and Syriac in Late Antique Syria, and its Ninth
International Conference will study the theme of Apameia and its
Cultural Context, July 14-17, 1997 at Oxford University.
Although the focus of attention will be on Apameia, proposals of papers
on other localities in Northern Syria West of the Euphrates (but excluding
Antioch), which deal with the interaction of Greek and Syriac, will also
be welcome.
If you wish to deliver a paper, please indicate the title and return to our
Oxford address. All papers given at the conference will be published in a
future edition of the ARAM Periodical, subject to editorial review.
If you know of colleagues who might like to contribute to the conference,
please add their names and addresses.
Aramaic-Syriac-Greek-Arabic Cultural Interchange in the Arab Peninsula:
13-15 July, 1998 (Oxford University)
Transmission and Innovation: Scientific and technological thought in
Syro-Mesopotamian area, 1000 BC - 1000 AD. 12-14 July 1999
(Oxford University).
Edessa and the East of the Euphrates, July 2000 (Oxford University).
Antioch and the West of the Euphrates, July 2001 (Oxford University).